PHP Create Database:–
Now you’ve understood how to open a connection to the MySQL database server. In this tutorial you will learn how to execute SQL query to create a database.
Before saving or accessing the data, we need to create a database first. The CREATE DATABASE statement is used to create a new database in MySQL.
Creating a Database
After creation of database by using CREATE DATABASE followed by database name ; we apply a mysqli query to check whether database is created or not.In below example you can easily see that how do we create a database named employee.
Example // How to create a database
<?php $servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);
// Check connection
if ($conn-?>connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$sql = "CREATE DATABASE employee";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
echo "Database created successfully";
} else {
echo "Error creating database: " . $conn->error;
}
$conn->close();
?>
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